If an area is populated by certain people or animals, those people or animals live there, often in large numbers. They populate the surrounding villages.
Definition of populate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated) (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people. (transitive) To live in; to inhabit. (intransitive) To increase in number; to breed. (computing, ambitransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection. John clicked the Search button and waited for the ...
To fill (an area or place) with inhabitants or people. The word "populate" is a verb derived from the Latin term "populare," which means "to make populous" or "to fill with inhabitants."
